In The Channel

Michelle Biase on what HP Canada learned from a year of seeding AI PCs to partners

Michelle Biase has been president and managing director of HP Canada for eighteen months. In that time, the company has grown its Canadian sales team by fifty percent, shifted to a unified One HP go-to-market model, and watched AI PC sales accelerate to nearly two-thirds of PC volume. In this episode, she sits down with In the Channel to talk about what partners actually did with early AI PC seeding units, how HP IQ is landing in the channel, the practical realities of memory-driven pricing volatility, and why partners should be paying more attention to the software and solutions layer.

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Exclusive Networks’ Carrie Hopkins on building specialist distribution in Canada and what Ignition means for partners

Exclusive Networks’ Carrie Hopkins joins In The Channel to talk about building a hyper-focused cybersecurity distribution model in Canada, the launch of the Ignition channel incubator, and why some of what Exclusive is doing might remind certain channel veterans of something they’ve seen before.

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HPE channel chief Jenson on Discover 2026, the Canadian angle, and what partners should stop doing

HPE vice president of North America channel and partner ecosystem Jeremiah Jenson sits down with ChannelBuzz.ca for the final word on HPE Discover 2026, from the show floor temperature to the specific opportunities he sees for Canadian partners in networking, hybrid cloud, and the “great VM reset.”

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The Buzz: Fidelma Russo makes the economic case for on-prem AI as HPE unveils Morpheus 9 and Vultr buys big

HPE Discover day three brings the economics argument: continuous AI agents cost $13,000 per month in the public cloud, while HPE’s own MindStone platform runs 30 times cheaper on-prem. Plus, Vultr buys HPE and NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra gear, and Morpheus 9 launches with a migration freebie.

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HPE’s Jeremiah Jenson on the power of one: what the Partner Growth Summit announcements mean for Canadian partners

HPE’s Jeremiah Jenson unpacks the Partner Growth Summit announcements – Juniper into Partner Ready Vantage, channel-only products including Zerto, and a new partner-branded services model – and what the “power of one” actually means for Canadian resellers and MSPs.

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AI starts with the network: an HPE Discover 2026 preview with Jeremiah Jenson

HPE Discover 2026 opens today in Las Vegas. We sat down with Jeremiah Jenson, HPE’s vice president of North America channel, to preview the show – from the “architecting AI starts with your network” theme to what the week means for Canadian partners watching from home.

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The Buzz: HPE Discover kicks off, Cato Networks launches integration hub, and Checkmarx report flags CISO pressure on security compliance

HPE Discover opens in Las Vegas today with the partner-exclusive Partner Growth Summit leading the way. Also in Monday’s briefing: Cato Networks launches 100-plus integrations, and Checkmarx data shows 95 per cent of CISOs are being pressured to delay security issues.

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All in on Dell: Turning Point’s Josh Singh on the single-vendor bet, AI for SMB, and why backup is the last line of defense

Josh Singh of Turning Point – the Vancouver solution provider that operates exclusively on Dell in the data center – brings a rare dual perspective to DTW: nearly a decade inside Dell followed by leading sales at one of Canada’s most committed Dell partners. The conversation covers AI adoption, data resilience, and navigating a market in disruption.

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It all comes back to storage: ESTI’s Earl Gosick on AI infrastructure, cyber resilience, and the Prairie data center opportunity

Storage specialist Earl Gosick of ESTI Consulting Services brings a 35-year Prairies perspective to Dell Technologies World, covering AI infrastructure economics, the reality of cyber recovery, and a genuinely compelling data center opportunity building in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

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